D&AD?

I’m on their telemarketing list, but I avoid competitions.

Dungeons & Advanced Dragons?

Not really my bag, sorry. :-(

Si

http://awards08.dandad.org/

<—— Hmm...I could start up a DA&D competition.

david...does it say anywhere on that site what D&AD actually stands for?

Design & ADvertising?
Maybe it’s Dragons & Advanced Dungeons
Design & Art Direction

> what D&AD actually stands for?

Dungeons & Advanced Dragons :^)

Design and ADvertising

Design & Art Direction

>Design & Art Direction

I’m sure that’s correct - but do they explain it anywhere on their site? I couldn’t find it. I guess that’s why there are separate organizations for Information Designers. ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D&AD

“I guess that’s why there are separate organizations for Information Designers.”

;)

You really want to pick the font carefully when setting this acronym. Some ampersands look unfortunately too much like an E... Such as with Super Duty.... Making the competition appealing to an entirely different demographic.

Too true.

For the permanent record...

First AD&D/D&AD, now the & = E... I’m starting to think too much like you guys.

For sake of completeness, anyone who does in fact wish to join in the dead competitions should check out http://www.darwinawards.com/ :)
But remember you can only win once.

Cringe Alert... wonder if the D&AD celebrate POETS* day like I did today - if so they could call themselves the D&AD POETS Society :-)

*Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday

Tempting, but some of us would be joining the D&AD Job Society if done too often. :)

Sad part is that despite leaving at 4.15pm I’ve been working since I got home.

Cheers, Si

http://www.dandad.org/

I truly had to know what D&Ad was all about - and what it really stood for. So, I wrote them. I would like to share their response with you.

Dear Jackie,

We do get asked that a lot. Officially, the letters “D&AD” stand for nothing at all. When it was founded in 1962, D&AD was called the British Designers & Art Directors Association. That name was dropped in favour of D&AD about 5 or 6 years ago for two reasons:

1) Over the years, the awards have become increasingly international - these days 70% of our entries come from outside of the UK - our second biggest entrant nation is the US.

2) We now support such a wide range of creative disciplines that ’designers and art directors’ seemed an inaccurate title. We cover 30 different categories in the awards alone, and run education & professional development programmes across disciplines.

We’ve been known informally as D&AD since our founding, so although we regularly hear the question you’ve just asked, we felt it was the best route to take.

I hope that clears things up - let me know if you have any other questions.

Regards,

Maeve

—
Maeve O’Sullivan
Senior Communications Manager
D&AD
9 Graphite Square, Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5EE, United Kingdom
Direct Line - +44 (0)20 7840 1125

D&AD Awards 2008 - Call for Entries - But is it a Pencil?
Visit http://www.dandad.org/awards08 for information or to enter.
Final deadline Wednesday 16 January 2008.

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On another note:
Miss Giggles - have you graduated yet?

“Officially, the letters “D&AD” stand for nothing at all.”

;o)

“stand for nothing”

fall for anything?

wait.... i’m so confused.

Well heck... AIGA recently “rebranded” themselves as “the professional association for design,” after all. Letters don’t have to actually stand for words, and words don’t have to actually mean anything. Who cares about actually communicating something, eh?

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

Wow. The acronym stands for nothing at all... I can’t believe they would actually speak that out loud. They should be proud of the heritage of the awards and the prestige that comes with being an association for 45 years.

Hmm...the D&AD does not stand for anything? Wow. Bad news eh?

So anyone involved or not? Seems like there arn’t many fans on here I guess.

http://www.dandad.org/